Corpse Retriever

Corpse Retriever: Series Description In a world that looks like a masterpiece but feels like a cage, secrets are the only things that are truly alive. Welcome to the borderlands of the Beyond, where the village of Black Water sits on the edge of a map that is being erased in real-time. Here, the grass is geometric, the sky is a predictable grey, and the dead do not stay buried—they become "Echoes" of a story the universe is trying to forget. Corpse Retriever is a dark fantasy epic about Li Zhuiyuan, a girl who was born a princess and ended up a ghost. On her eighteenth birthday, she discovers that her life isn't just a series of tragedies; it’s a draft. And she is the only one who has the power to hold the pen. The universe of Corpse Retriever is governed by a cosmic force known as The Publisher. To the Publisher, reality is a book that needs to be perfectly formatted, predictable, and marketable. Anything "messy"—grief, uncontrollable love, rebellion, or unique beauty—is labeled as "High-Variance Noise." To maintain order, the Publisher employs The Iron Ridge, a shadow government of "Auditors" and "Clean-Up Crews" who travel from sector to sector to "Standardize" reality. When a person or a place is standardized, they lose their color, their depth, and their history. They become "Templates"—boring, interchangeable background assets who follow a pre-written script. The energy that fuels life is called Magnitude. Those with low Magnitude are easy to edit. Those with high Magnitude, like Zhuiyuan, are "Iridescent." They possess Manny Juice, a raw spiritual frequency that allows them to "Edit" the world around them. But Magnitude comes with a debt. If you use too much of it without an "Anchor," your resolution drops, and you eventually flicker out into a 2D sketch before being deleted forever. Li Zhuiyuan (The Architect / Little Marquis Yuan) Zhuiyuan was once the "Little Marquis" of the Capital, the most powerful sector in the world. After a mysterious fire destroyed her family’s legacy, she was exiled to Black Water and disguised as a "mousy scholarship student." She is a Strategist. She doesn't rely on raw strength; she relies on her ability to see the "Logic Leaks" in the world. The Awakening: On her 18th birthday, her skin turns a deep, velvet navy blue, and silver sparks begin to dance in her marrow. She realizes she is the "Architect"—a legendary figure capable of un-writing the Publisher’s laws. The Goal: Find her "Archived" family and rescue her twin brother, Silas, from the Iron Ridge’s central vault. Kai (The Sentinel / The Anchor) Kai is a senior Corpse Retriever, a man who has spent lifetimes recovering the "Deleted" and pacifying the "Vengeful." He is tattered, scarred, and smells of woodsmoke and pine needles. He is a Sentinel, made of sapphire ice and unshakable loyalty. The Role: He is Zhuiyuan’s "Anchor." Only his cold, grounded frequency can stop Zhuiyuan from exploding during a Magnitude spike. He is the one who avoids closeness because he believes he is just a "Narrative Device" written to protect her, but his growing love for her is the one thing the script didn't anticipate. The Hidden Quirk: He adores the "typos" in Zhuiyuan—the way she stutters when she’s nervous or the way she arranges her pens by color. Mei (The Variable) One of the "Outcast Children," Mei was a background character in a story that was canceled. She was left halfway through a "Standardization," leaving her with a wireframe arm and white, un-rendered eyes. Originally a spy for the Great Uncle, she is "Iridized" by Zhuiyuan and becomes the leader of the Outcast Army—a resistance of deleted characters who refuse to stay in the margins. The Great Uncle (The Tradition) The head of the Corpse Retrievers in Black Water. He believes that "Stability" is more important than "Truth." He views the dead as data that needs to be cleaned and Zhuiyuan as an asset that needs to be controlled.

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